A search on Google for "manorexia" yields 85,300 hits.

Dennis Quaid had anorexia.
So did Billy Bob Thornton.

They didn't have manorexia.

Yes, a guy's experience of anorexia will be different than a woman's (see yesterday's post), but it's the same illness.

So stop trying to make it different.

I understand that people want to emphasize that eating disorders aren't just "a chick thing," and that's very good. But calling it "manorexia" seems to separate it from the "other" eating disorders, further shunting men away from the ED mainstream as it were.

From a neurochemical standpoint, it's the same illness. It is.

So please, stop.

With all of the -rexias. You're really making me anorexi-rexic.